I received an email yesterday with subject:

Call2Skype: 06xxxxxxxx

Huh? What’s that?!

Well I had my suspicions! But they are true! One of my VOIP suppliers — Budgetphone — has a new feature; phone number recognition!

My VOIP setup

12voip

Website: http://www.12voip.com (best betamax supplier IMHO)
App support: yes, mobilevoip (iOS & Android)
Advantages: crazy low rates compared to skype + ‘Freedays’
Disadvantages: no group calls

Skype

Website: http://www.skype.com
App support: yup, plenty
Advantages: SkypeIN and call routing
Disadvantages: need to be online, otherwise voicemail, expensive rates for calling

Budgetphone

Website: BudgetPhone.NL Call2Skype: €24,50/year
Advantages:  Call routing to a Dutch number of choosing (way cheaper than SkypeIN)
Disadvantages: not being able to see who’s calling (caller ID hidden) used to be a disadvantages, but that now seems solved!

So why do I still have a Cellphone?

Ehhh … cause people expect me to? That’s a rubbish reason when I think about it. :D The entire “getting rid of my cellphone” thought is being emphasised by listening to a lot of training video’s of David Wood. What would live be like without a CellPhone?

SIMcards

A lot of people don’t know, but I don’t have just 1 SIMcard, I have another simcard cellphone number in the UK and 1 down in Cyprus, but not using them much.

WhatsApp?

Passed me by really. I have it installed, don’t understand it, and almost nobody on my list is using it (properly)

What does it take to get rid of my cellphone?

Put an ad up on MarktPlaats, sell it and done … but … I also have it all over the internet in profiles, and 2-step verification:

• 12voip caller ID … fixed
• google 2-step verification … fixed
• Marktplaats business profile … fixed
• Marktplaats personal profile … fixed

 And that’s IT really! From now on no more cellphone for me!

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• Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
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• Invision Community since 2018-05
• Insanely Mac since 2018-02
• eGPU.io since 2017-04
• Tech Inferno since 2016-08
• forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
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• Couch Surfing since 2014

• BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
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• Empire Avenue since 2013
• forum.OSXLatitude.com since 2011-08
• Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
• TripAdvisor since 2010-09
• MoneyMakerGroup.com since 2007-03
• HardWare.info since 2003-08
• SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
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